Quotes by Jane Howard

• She was a patron saint of the peripheral.
• Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.
• New links must be forged as old ones rust.
• A lot of people would rather tour sewers than visit their cousins.
• Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.